User manual

The program can only process dynamic GPT disks containing solid simple volumes (without

extension).

Changing Primary Slot

Different operating systems apply different approaches to enumeration of the primary partitions.

In Linux:

In Linux, every partition has a special symbolic name that encodes a hard disk containing a partition, and a partition

itself. Partitions are addressed and accessed by using their symbolic names. Symbolic names are automatically

generated by Linux in accordance with the order of hard disks in BIOS and the order of partition records in the Partition

Table. Thus changing enumeration of the primary partitions can lead to changing of paths to some important resources.

In DOS:

The last versions of MS-DOS use a rather sophisticated algorithm for a drive letter assignment. A drive letter, which is

assigned to a partition, depends on the order of records in the Partition Table. Thus changing enumeration of the

primary partitions affects the drive letters assignment. In early versions of MS-DOS, it could even lead to the

unavailability of a partition.

The program provides the ability to change enumeration of the primary partitions. This feature will allow you to fix

problems concerning an inappropriate order of partitions.

In order to modify enumeration of the primary partitions you should take the following steps:

Launcher

1. Select a hard disk on the Disk Map.

2. Call the Change Primary Slot dialog to set up the operation. There are several ways to do it:

- Select in the Main Menu: Hard Disk > Change Primary Slot.

- Call the popup menu for the selected hard disk (right click of the mouse button) on the Disk Map, then

select the menu item: Change Primary Slot.